5/22 Post-Game: Tampa Bay Rays @ Florida Marlins

by R.J. Anderson on May 22, 2009 10:36 PM EDT

Player	WPA
Bartlett	0.178
Navarro	0.119
Sonny	0.094
Pena	0.058
Longoria	0.033
Upton	0.029
Iwamura	0.025
Thayer	0.002
Brignac	0
Aybar	0
Kapler	0
Zobrist	0
Crawford	-0.007
Gross	-0.029

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Total win

Complete win, well played, thorough.

Put Tampa Bay back on our road uniforms!!

by joedobr on May 22, 2009 10:40 PM EDT reply actions

Wait, the Marlins had a better than 50% WE at one point?

2009 Rays Baseball: God Damn It, Guys

by JMB on May 22, 2009 10:43 PM EDT reply actions

And Yankees, Sox and Jays lose

and Indians (personal)

by Raymondo on May 22, 2009 10:44 PM EDT reply actions

Additional in the Indians game

Gomes with his first Reds hit-double, and the Indians pitching is so bad it injures itself to save face

by Transplanted on May 22, 2009 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions

how does a guy go 3-5, hit a homerun and have 4 rbi's

and have a negative WPA?

by behn on May 22, 2009 10:44 PM EDT reply actions

Because the positive stuff came after the game got out of hand, I'd imagine.

by ReasonableDoubt on May 22, 2009 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions

shows how utterly worthless some of those measurements are

Give me a home run hitting 4 RBI negative WPA guy every day. Imagine that conversation in an arbitration hearing.

by gatorman2k2 on May 23, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions

The Rays have a run differential of +35 (249 RS, 214 RA)

That’s fifth in all of baseball. Best .500 team ever.

Hello.

by killa3312 on May 22, 2009 10:51 PM EDT reply actions

Yea, well, if we lose tomorrow 3-2, i don't want to hear about our run differnential.

by walkoffwalk on May 22, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Don't worry

Niemann will give up more than 3

2009 Rays Baseball: God Damn It, Guys

by JMB on May 22, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Don't we have

The 2nd best Offensive in the MLB in terms of RPG?

by Transplanted on May 22, 2009 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions

Remember when we were collectively screaming about this team not scoring runs?

Yeah, I feel stupid too, and yes we’re second behind……Philadelphia.

"Where we all wait in earnest with pudding in hand for the Upton comet to sail through the roofed skies, so that we may meet Him."

by kericr on May 23, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions

Best in franchis history at 5.7 RPG

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

-Al Lopez

by Sandy Kazmir on May 23, 2009 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Thayer...

Strikes, strikes and again, strikes. low to mid 90s, movement, quick worker. Tiny sample size, but from what I just saw, I would take him over both Wheeler and Nelson. Also, isn’t it interesting that Thayer should remind us of another reliever who was burning up Durham about this time last year, and then came up and made a big impact. If this continues, I’d be for DFAing Wheeler before sending Thayer down whenever Kazmir gets back.

Very cool to see a 28 year old guy do well in his debut. Looks like a utility infielder on the hill (Seaver he is not) but I like what I saw so far.

by ValricoBrian on May 22, 2009 11:00 PM EDT reply actions

how 'bout that

2nd place in AVG Bartlett?

34 - N.J.A - R.I.P

by Figgi4life on May 22, 2009 11:02 PM EDT reply actions

Dale Thayer made A.F. a man with a very tough decision come Monday

Thayer looked very good, however the game was out of hand and no pressure at all. When Price needs to come up does Thayer go down, Brignac? My vote would still be, DFA Kapler and platoon Brignac with Aki and 2B, but given that Brignac came in for Bartlett, not Aki, I’m guessing Maddon doesn’t think he is ready to play 2B yet.

by Dbullsfan on May 22, 2009 11:03 PM EDT reply actions

I think when you are on a big league hill for the first time...

you feel it in your gut, regardless of the score, so I think for him, it might have been consistent with a close game save situation in Durham. I think he will have good results overall. Not saying closer material, but surely a solid 7th inning guy, or another long guy to maybe allow Cormier to be in higher leverage situations.

by ValricoBrian on May 22, 2009 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions